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Title: What is the first stage of cellular respiration?
Post by: fionacurley on Dec 15, 2012
I have to do a project where I have to turn the first stage of cellular respiration into a comic. But I honestly cannot understand a word of biology so could someone please explain it in the simplest possible terms that will make it easier for me to translate into comic form?


Title: What is the first stage of cellular respiration?
Post by: rivertube on Dec 15, 2012
The first step of cellular respiration involves phosphorylation of glucose.
Read glycolysis, KREBS CYCLE, AND ETS.


Title: What is the first stage of cellular respiration?
Post by: rizkallah15 on Dec 15, 2012
The stages are: Glycolysis, Krebs Cycle, Electron Chain Transport

the first stage is Glycolysis, which is the breaking up of glucose a 6 carbon sugar into two 3 carbon molecules called Pyruvate. The three carbon sugar, or Pyruvate, is then broken up into a two carbon molecule called Acetyl CoA, this molecule enters the Krebs Cycle where carbons are added and taken off to create energy(known as ATP), and last is the electron chain transport.